add the poster information to community rss feeds

[ratcreature]

Title:
add the poster information to community rss feeds

Area:
communities, rss

Summary:
When I read a feed of a community I would like to be able to see the user who posted as well as the community name. It seems that this info is not in the RSS feed, and I guess DW can't do anything to make it appear in the LJ feeds, but it doesn't seem to be included in the community feeds originating on DW either, and I think it should be, so people reading communities offsite could see the posters.

Description:
In other feeds from blogs I've sometimes seen a "posted by" line, and in addition to the feed name I don't know whether that is a formal field in the format, but something like that would be nice to have in community feeds, so that readers could tell the poster.

Currently community feeds are for me more like alerts, because I always have to click to see who the poster was, even if I don't want to comment. So I suppose a drawback might be that people like me who like to know the poster are less likely to click to the original feed to find out, but communities concerned about their traffic can change the feed setting to just a teaser blurb or summary iirc, so that would be more straightforward to attract clicks, and otherwise I can't think of anything negative to come from this.

Poll #6470 add the poster information to community rss feeds

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
31 (67.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.2%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (28.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

I don't understand what behaviour you are looking for here. Do you mean for the feed from a blog which has multiple contributors or do you mean the person who set the feed up on Dreamwidth?

[ratcreature]

I mean the poster in a community being shown in the feed of a community. Like I mod a community here on DW, called fanart_recs. Someone (not me) set up a feed for that community on LJ at http://syndicated.livejournal.com/fanart_recs/, because people like to follow the recs there, but they cannot see who posted the recs, they just see the community name, fanart_recs as poster, not "susiefangirl in fanart_recs" as it is with communities you follow locally. I want that the feeds from communities provided by DW include the susiefangirl name in addition to the comm name.

[jumpuphigh]

Thanks for explaining. I get it now.

[matgb]

When DW reads a feed from a blog with multiple creators, the poster of each post can be displayed as it's included in the feed.

A community is effectively a blog with multiple creators, but we don't use the same RSS standards to insert the poster name into the feed.

We should.

[jumpuphigh]

Thanks